You want to drive in a CRAMPED vehicle with appalling visibility and too high a price tag? Buy a CLA/GLA. Ugh. GLC at least gives its occupants room to breathe.

CVT = Avoid.

LITABCAB. AAIT. FMBAAAW.

Agreed.

The size is good, but they’re dreadfully unreliable, and the 1.4L is barely sufficient in a sonic, let alone a taller sonic with more weight (e.g. Trax/Encore).

Only so-so reliability, like its other FCA relatives. I don’t go a month without seeing a customer’s Cherokee, Compass, Renegade, or 500X needing to go to the dealer for some electronic and/or transmission fault.

Oh good, an ending-production snoozemobile with pathetic reliability and resale values. I love wagons, but this isn’t a great recommendation.

That’s highly insulting to the Kia Soul.

Hahahahahahahaha no.

Great choice, but she wants AWD, which the 5 - and the Rondo and C-Max (which I lump in the same general “stubby but functional” category) - lack.

That’s because the CX-3 is the crossovered Mazda2 (why they called it CX-3 is beyond me) whereas the CX-5 is the crossovered Mazda3. But only new Mazda3s have AWD available, but without the ground clearance and ease of entry she wants.

They got quieter for 2018 or 2019. Still not as quiet as the current generation CX-5, but far better than before, where the wind noise from the mirrors alone was almost embarrassingly bad.

Ick, no. Those are the official vehicle of off-roading poseurs, who can’t afford something better-suited to the desired task from the factory.

“A small crossover that doesn’t suck.”

DeMuro just posted a review about those earlier this month. It wasn’t very glowing.

Subies have changed, too. They’re overstyled, awkward, swollen-looking (except the BRZ), and (to me) unappealling. I’d buy/lease a new still-boxy Volvo over a free Subaru for the same term.

I agree. Such that I bought such a wagon last year, making it my third Volvo wagon. 740, 760, and now XC90. It’s my lifted AWD wagon that I can schlep my wife, 2 other adults, and 2 kiddos in to visit our relatives who live on roads only passable by vehicles with high ground clearance and 4 driven wheels.

I think it was 3mpg on the test track. Highway mileage on these was at least double digits.

All GM and VAG vehicles (sorry Porsche & Lamborghini, that means you, too).

Hey, it’s not nice to steal. That’s Volvo’s catchphrase.